After completing my post graduate studies at the Slade School of Art in 1980, I began my university teaching career in Fine Art. Throughout this time I continued to paint, producing work for exhibitions, and collaborating with companies and institutions such as RADA and BMW UK. Over recent years I have devoted my time to painting, concentrating on the current themes in landscape. I have worked with a number of commissioning bodies in industry and the arts and my work is in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum. Over the last two years I have exhibited ‘Rural Rides’ at the New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham and a series of recent paintings in ‘Roots and Journeys’ at The Watts Gallery Compton.

I am passionate about the subject of landscape but this extends beyond topography and location. For me landscape has become a theatre for passive sometimes metaphorical dramas. I'm fascinated by the theatre and atmosphere used by artists of the American Hudson River School such as Frederick Church and Martin Johnson Heade. They have inspired me to use light as a theatrical tool and as means of taking the subject beyond romanticism and representation.

The act of researching and creating an image fascinates me as much now as it did in childhood, an artist is all I’ve ever wanted to be. I have a close relationship with all my work whether they are made in a few hours or several months. It’s the dialogue between art and the artist that allows interpretation and narrative to go beyond realism. The history of painting and its legacy is self evident and for me it is as relevant now as ever. I want my work to be seen and enjoyed.